NameBank data are accessed via methods defined in SOAP. The SOAP methods provide access to lists of languages, management taxonomy "packages", and name search interfaces. The primary output object is the NameBank object. The NameBank object contains version and source metadata, record confidence and namestring metadata, and arrays of associated nominal, nomenclatual and canonical group identifiers and name strings.

The next version of NameBank will move output formats to RDF/XML which will be resolved through LSIDs.